Elections have consequences.
A whole bunch more RINOs to go and we’ll be set.
Don’t catch Potomac Fever. Stay true to the Conservative cause.
I hope he’s right about everything.
What sticks in my mind is nominee Brat’s comments I heard on TV today. He said (paraphrasing) that Tea party goals and GOPe goals are not far apart. Both are for free market capitalism, which is actually more humane than socialism.
It wasn’t just amnesty. It was spending, the unwillingness to stand for Republican principles, Obamacare, and a host of issues on which Eric Cantor has gone over to the dark side. Immigration is in the news and it was likely the tipping point, but it was just one of a host of reasons why Cantor was ousted.
I still say that 95 percent of elected Republicans in Congress either repudiate conservatism or fake it.
Some new fake conservative in the Ryan-McCarthy mold will emerge as Speaker of the House if there is going to be a change.
BOEHNER AND A SMALL GROUP OF GOP HOUSE MEMBERS WILL LIKELY GO WITH THE DEMS TO RAM THROUGH ‘IMMIGRATION REFORM’ AFTER THE NOVEMBER ELECTIONS, THEN BOEHNER WILL MOVE ON AND A NEW FACE WILL BE SPEAKER.
I hope this gets momentum for Joe Carr in TN. Our primary isn’t until August. And McDaniel in MS. When is Gramnesty up?
Newws media don’t tell me you’re ‘stunned’. I’ve been stunned with all the news about immigrant children crossing the border, EPA shutting down more industries when we’re hurting for jobs, gas prices going up to $4.00 a gallion, the Dems allowing Veterans to die but they want to buy the votes of young people by forgiving their student loans, etc. etc. Stunned voters do stunning things - hip hip hooray.
Raúl Labrador (ID-1) has made some vague indication he may try for the speakership, with some Tea Party congressmen favoring him. Would be a million times better than Boehner, and best of all, McConnell would HATE it!
I think Ben S. pretty much nails it...
Why would Obama even consider performing an open act such as issuing an executive order on immigration?
The guy is a weasel.
All he needs to do is continue to work the back channels to support the current policy of de facto amnesty.
The Viva La Raza crowd is getting more than its fair share of TV coverage making the claim that Obama has deported more illegals than any other president.
So Obama's getting the cover he needs to continue to allow the waves of illegals to wash upon our shores. No need to make this public and rile up the Democrats trying to prop up a majority in the Senate.
I’d really like to see Tom McClintock in a leadership position.
Activism can win a primary with 35,000 votes, but not a Presidential election. That's why Romney won the nomination. For activism to have a chance, we need to pick a candidate early and fund that person.
The Cantor defeat is the death knell for the immigration reform caucus in the GOP, at least for this cycle, and that means that the party will be more, not less unified.
I don't believe this for a second. There is a majority in Congress for "immigration reform" consisting of Democrats and RINOs. Just tonight, Dana Perrino was "suggesting" that Cantor step down so that a RINO could be entrenched and offering a list of "attractive" womyn. We don't need sexism; we need leadership.
Send the military to the border and send Boehner to the back bench.
You will see the GOPe push harder than ever before to make sure all non GOPe candidates get shredded. If not in the primaries, in the general election.
I have already heard rumblings here in Iowa after the primary that the GOP is going to make sure that first, the election in November does not result in a “reactionary” candidate winning. Even if that means giving it to Braley.
Second, to make dang sure that the caucuses go to the “right” candidate. The Paul people found out about the fix last time, they will be more careful this time.
1. You knew Cantor was in trouble 2 weeks ago when he tried to sound like Mr Border Control. It was Eric Cantor who put immigration on the front burner by his blatant hypocrisy to go along with his public statements of support for amnesty.
2. Cantor either was a conservative when he first entered Congress or he never was a conservative. We are told he originally won as a very strong conservative. If he was a conservative, then he is the poster child for the corruption of Washington DC getting eventually to everybody. Term limits or not, in our minds we should grant a candidate 4 terms at a maximum and then replace them.
3. Conservatives are not inclined to replace a moderate, capable candidate with a principled but incapable, likely losing candidate. For the most part, this is wise. Witness Cantor being replaced by a well-spoken, thoughtful economics(?) professor. That is the response for Lindsay Graham’s race in South Carolina, too. None of his opponents were able to ease concerns of voters about being a capable replacement. (Notice also that Graham used the divide and conquer philosophy again. He had SIX opponents. My guess is that most of them were ringers recruited by covert Graham supporters.)
4. As a veteran, I have it in for every candidate that supported Paul Ryan’s betrayal of veterans. I’m guessing that everywhere in Virginia is home to thousands of military retirees. Eric Cantor supported the betrayal.
5. Eric Cantor preached controlling the budget, but time and again he caved on the budget. Then he and the Boehner crew got cute with their “pass the buck to the next crisis” strategy. They thought voters stupid as they always claimed that it was the next time when they’d make a stand. It became evident they were just gaming the people.
6. Obama now has 2 years of executive authority in which to further damage the American landscape with immigration, energy, cronyism, health care, employment participation, welfare, appeasement, and anti-Israel pro-Islamic foreign policy. At some point, even the democrats in Congress who desire victory in 2016 will be tempted to force him to stop. A majority republican Senate and House with select democrats could do that.
7. The House will be forced into new leadership, so the most dangerous moment for immigration reform will be the lame duck session. IIRC, Boehner needs only 16 rinos to side with democrats to send amnesty to the Senate in the lame duck, and Harry Reid WILL expand the nuke option to get it if he has to. Beohner has already proven he has no qualms about violating the Hastert rule, AND Boehner knows there is very low probability he will retain the speakership in the next Congress. Also, the constitution allows the president to FORCE Congress into session at any time he desires. What would Cantor trade for betrayal: would he accept a home in the democrat party to go along with his democrat wife?
8. A Cruz/Martinez ticket will bring social conservatives back to the party, it will appeal to Hispanics and woo them to the party, and Susanna Martinez will be a bit of foil against Hillary’s female first campaign. Cruz/Martinez has great possibilities and deserves serious reflection on the part of conservatives.
Cantor with Perelman and Cantor’s wife and the other rinos will try to push through amnesty...why? Because Cantor was a liberal plant anyway; think about it. If you are a staunch conservative or a libertarian or a constitutional conservative, whatever, would you, could you REALLY marry a die hard liberal? NOOOO!
His wife and he benefit somehow by the companies he’ll lobby for and Perelman’s cache of holding companies who benefit somehow from cheap labor here or abroad...that’s my prediction...it’s all about what benefits him. Cantor is and was a phony and we have to be smarter than that.
Clue: If the candidate’s wife or company they came from is associated strongly with liberals, then the candidate is lying and is NOT a conservative even if they say they are one.
I don’t think the anti-Establishment backlash will be limited to the GOP. No one is more Establishment than Hillary Clinton, yet her support is a mile wide and an inch deep. Her only asset is her sense of inevitability (it certainly isn’t a record of achievement). Puncture this and she evaporates, just like in 2008. I wonder if this will embolden Dems to challenge her from the left.